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A Gainesville man told police someone knocked him out when he got home and stole money, a phone and other items early Wednesday.
The 22-year-old pulled up to his home in the 200 block of NW 19th Avenue at about 1 a.m. He was getting out of his vehicle when he was struck and knocked unconscious, according to Gainesville police. The man awoke about three hours later and found he was missing cash, a phone, keys and a debit card.
Nothing in the mans vehicle or home seemed to have been disturbed, police reported.
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The present invention relates to the production and use of a hydraulic fracturing foam for subterranean formations and more particularly to the method and apparatus for increasing the amount of proppant in the foam.
Various methods are well known to stimulate production of crude oil and natural gas from wells drilled in reservoirs of low permeability, although emphasis has been placed on hydraulically fracturing such formations with various liquids, such as native crude oil, with or without propping agents, such as sand, suspended therein. The hydraulic pressure applied to such low permeable formations creates tensile stresses in the rock of the formation surrounding the well bore and these stresses causing splitting, parting or fracturing of the rock. The initially formed fractures or channels are then extended by the injection of fluids containing propping agent to be deposited in the fractures. When the pressure is released, the propping agent deposited in the fractures hold the fractures open, leaving channels for reservoir fluid flow. The concentration of propping agent in the fluid is of significance because it determines the final thickness of the fractures. Typical prior art references disclosing such techniques include the following U.S. patents: Bullen, U.S. Pat. No. 3,664,422, McKinnel, U.S. Pat. No. 3,561,533; Gomory, U.S. Pat. No. 3,363,691; Marx, U.S. Pat. No. 3,136,361; Zingg et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,842,910; Henry, U.S. Pat. No. 3,245,470; Trott, U.S. Pat. No. 2,859,821; and Kerver et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,138,205.
Hydraulic fracturing with foam, however, is only a recent development. A process using a foam composition to fracture is disclosed in the Blauer et al. U.S. Pat. No. 3,937,283, in an article by Bullen appearing in the July 22, 1974 issue of "Oilweek" and a paper by Blauer and Kohlhaas entitled "Formation Fracturing with Foam" SPE 5003. These documents disclose a making of a fracturing foam by blending sand into jelled water and treating the slurry with a surfactant. The fluid pressure is increased with a conventional pump after which a gas, such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide, is injected into the fluid at which point a high pressure foam is created. This foam is then injected into the well.
The use of a foam as a fracturing fluid has a number of advantages. The foam has a low fluid loss and hence the fracture treatment is more efficient and since larger-area fractures are created with the same treatment volume, formation damage is minimized because little fluid invades the formation. Reduction of fracture conductivity is also minimized. Theoretically, the foam has a high sand-carrying and sand-suspending capability whereby a greater amount of sand will remain suspended in the fluid until the fracture starts to heal. Because more sand can be carried to the fracture, the propped fracture area to the created fracture area ratio theoretically approaches one. In addition, the sand does not settle quickly in the well bore during unplanned shut-downs during the treatment. The foam has a high effective viscosity permitting the creation of wider vertical fractures and horizontal fractures having greater area. The foam has a low friction loss which reduces the hydraulic horsepower necessary for injection and permits treatment of many wells down tubing. Since the foam has a low liquid content, the hydraulic horsepower necessary for injection is reduced which results in low hydrostatic head which, in turn, results in an underbalanced condition soon after opening the well thereby minimizing fluid entry and formation damage. Due to essentially zero fluid leakoff, a greater increase length of hydraulic fracture penetration into the formation is possible. Experience has shown that the cost of using foam for moderately deep wells is less than or the same as conventional techniques.
Unfortunately, the cost for using foam produced pursuant to the prior art has at least one major handicap, namely, the maximum proppant concentration obtainable is quite low. Conventional hydraulic fluids can achieve sand concentrations of 6 to 8 lbs. of sand per gallon of carrying fluid. Typical figures for concentration of proppant during the formation of the foam using a method taught in the Blauer et al patent includes a heavy gel with a maximum concentration of 6 to 8 lbs. of proppant per gallon of gel. However, when the liquid is foamed, the gas expands the liquid to approximately four times the original volume of gel. The net result is that the sand-foam concentration is reduced to about 2 lbs. per gallon. As a result, the conventional foam process is not as useful to industry as it could be.
Most of the conventional methods of fracturing use sand as a propping agent because of its availability, its low cost, ability to easily grade and size the sand particles, its chemical stability, its low interference with well activity, and its ability when in the crevices to withstand the tremendous pressures from the overburden when the fluid pressure is relieved. However, sand is also a highly abrasive substance and consequently specially designed equipment must be used. Rugged pumps and tanks are now available which can inject slurries with sand-fluid ratios as high as 9 lbs. per gallon. However, this concentration of sand is insufficient to provide a foam fracturing fluid that has the desired concentration of sand or propping agent. Because of the difficulty of pumping and otherwise handling large quantities and large flow rates of sand slurries, it is not possible to increase the initial sand concentration to much greater than 8 lbs. per gallon. Thus, there is a great need and a large demand for a foam fracturing fluid that has a high concentration of sand or other propping agent and a means for introducing the fracturing fluid at the high well head pressures required to cause fracturing.
The present invention provides a method for producing a fracturing foam fluid with higher concentrations of proppant than were previously achievable. The present invention achieves a foam having up to twice the proppant concentration as that presently obtainable from conventional approaches. Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a fluid composition of matter and a process for using that composition to fracture, extend an existing fracture, or otherwise stimulate flow, drainage and productivity of subterranean formations.
To accomplish the above and other objectives, the present invention provides a process for producing a foam fluid having a high concentration of proppant. The present invention generally comprises a method of making a foam for treating a subsurface earth formation penetrated by a well bore and the treatment of the earth formation. The method comprises generally the steps of blending a proppant with a foamable carrier thereby forming a slurry, and pressurizing the slurry to a desired pressure depending on the well depth, the geological area, the type of earth formation, and other injection criteria. The pressurized slurry or a part of it is then introduced into a centrifugal separator for separating out some of the carrier and thereby concentrating the amount of proppant per volume of slurry. An amount of the carrier is removed from the separator per volume of slurry until the desired proppant concentration is obtained in the concentrated slurry and the concentrated slurry is discharged from the separator. At some stage prior to the formation of foam, a surfactant is added to the mixture. Upon the addition of pressurized gas to the discharged, concentrated slurry, a pressurized foam is formed.
A separator for concentrating the slurry according to the present invention comprises a substantially horizontally extending vessel having a slurry intake at a forward end and a concentrated slurry discharge and a carrier discharge at the rearward end. A rotor rotatably mounted inside the vessel and rotated by a motor defines a concentric channel between the vessel and the rotor. The rotor comprises a substantially cylindrical stabilizer at the forward end thereof for imparting a spin to the incoming slurry, a plurality of intake propellers downstream of the stabilizer, and a plurality of discharge impellers spaced downstream from the intake impellers. An internal passageway connects the intake impellers to the discharge impellers.
The foregoing method and apparatus has all the desirable properties for producing a significantly more proppant-concentrated slurry than that produced by conventional methods. The present method can use conventional apparatus including a conventional cyclone separator or can use a separator as disclosed herein.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be set forth in or apparent from the detailed disclosure of the preferred embodiments hereinbelow.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the process for creating and injecting foam into a well.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an alternative embodiment of a process for creating and injecting foam into a well.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a third embodiment for creating and injecting foam into a well. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a separator or concentrator for increasing the concentration of proppant in the slurry prior to the foaming of the slurry.
FIG. 5 is a front elevational view of an intake impeller on the rotor of the concentrator depicted in FIG. 4.
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 6--6 of FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 is a front elevational view of a discharge impeller on the rotor of the concentrator depicted in FIG. 4.
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 8--8 of FIG. 7.
With reference to the figures, wherein like numerals represent like elements throughout the several views, method and apparatus for formation fracturing with foam having a greater proppant concentration are depicted. With reference to FIG. 1, a flow chart of a particular embodiment of the method according to the present invention is depicted. A tank 10 stores a foamable carrier which may be a liquid, a gel, a colloidal suspension, or the like. In the present example, the carrier is comprised of water thickened with a guar gum at a concentration of 2 to 2.5 lbs. per 100 gallons of water. For the purposes of this specification, all units will be United States units unless otherwise indicated. The water-guar gum solution forms a gel, the viscosity of which depends on the rate of shear. The gel is classified as a non-Newtonian fluid with a plastic viscosity ranging from 10 to 30 centipoise.
A suitable proppant is added to a blender 12 which takes a suction on tank 10. The presently preferable proppant is 40 to 60 screen sand. However, other proppants which can be used can include glass, plastics, and metal particles. The shape of the proppant particles can be spherical, ellipsoidal, or irregular. The output of the blender is a slurry which is then fed to a high pressure injection pump 14. The concentration of the proppant or sand is typically from 6 to 8 lbs. of sand per gallon of carrier. Pump 14 is a conventional pump and raises the pressure of the slurry to at least the required well head pressure.
The pressurized slurry is then fed into the input of a separator or concentrator 16 which increases the proppant-slurry ratio by "dehydrating" the slurry. Concentrator 16 segregates a fraction of the carrier and discharges it via a pressure reduction system 18 to a settling tank 20 which is at atmospheric pressure and from which it can be sent to a storage tank (not shown). The remaining fraction of the input to concentrator 16 is discharged therefrom as a concentrated slurry. As an example, the slurry from the discharge of concentrator 16 can have from 12 to 15 lbs. of proppant or sand per gallon of fluid.
Pressure reduction system 18 comprises a throttling valve system which must reduce the pressure of the carrier from a high level of from 2,000 to 6,000 psig to near atmospheric pressure. Although this large amount of pressure drop can present problems in valve wear and noise control, conventional commercial equipment is available for performing this function. An automatic, two stage valve system is disclosed in FIG. 1 and comprises a first reduction valve 22 and a second reduction valve 24 with an intermediate, manually operated throttling valve 26. It is preferable that the reduction and throttling valves have ceramic chokes. The discharge pressure of first reduction valve 22 is automatically controlled by signals generated by an upstream differential pressure transmitter 28 and a downstream differential pressure transmitter 30. An electrical output signal is generated by upstream transmitter 28 and is sent through a bias relay to a three-mode flow controller 32 which also receives the electrical output signal from transmitter 30 directly. An electrical signal from flow controller 32 operates a valve positioner 34 which in turn is mechanically coupled to first reduction valve 22. In addition, valve positioner 34 generates an electrical signal which is sent to a booster relay 36 which in turn is electrically coupled to first reduction valve 22 for providing a more rapid initial response of the valve. Second reduction valve 24 requires a much simpler control system. A differential pressure transmitter 38 generates an electrical signal which is coupled to a three-mode pressure controller 40. Pressure controller 40 generates a valve control signal which is fed to a valve positioner 42 that in turn is both electrically and mechanically coupled to second reduction valve 24 for the positioning thereof. Various pressure indicators 44 and a flow recorder 46 are used to monitor the operation of the pressure reduction system 18.
In order to reduce the surface tension of the concentrated slurry discharged from concentrator 16, a conventional surfactant is injected at a mixing junction 48 with a conventional, high pressure injection pump 50. The particular surfactant or surface active foaming agent utilized will, of course, depend upon the carrier and the type and character of the formation. Examples of conventional surfactants are disclosed in the Blauer et al patent referred to hereinabove. At a point downstream of surfactant mixing junction 48, a second mixing junction 52 is used for the introduction of the foam generating gas. The gases utilizable in the present invention include nitrogen, carbon dioxide, air, hydrocarbon gases, and the "inert" gases such as argon, helium, krypton and xenon. A large amount of gas at high pressure must be used for the production of foam, which is produced at the point where gas is added. The foam is then introduced into a well 54. Foam injection rates are approximately 4 to 5 times the volume of fluid supplied to pump 14.
In an alternative embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 2, the high pressure slurry output from pump 14 is divided into two parts, a first part being fed to a conventional cyclone separator 56. A portion of the carrier is separated from the slurry in cyclone separator 56 and is discharged through a throttling valve 58 back to tank 10. The foaming gas, such as nitrogen, may be introduced into separator 56. The second part of the slurry bypasses separator 56 and is sent to a mixing junction 60 where surfactant is added. The surfactant-slurry mixture is then combined at a mixing juncture 62 with the concentrated slurry-nitrogen mixture discharged from separator 56. Additional nitrogen is added at mixing juncture 62 to yield the desired quality foam which is then piped into the well. The proppant concentration in the concentrated slurry is regulated by controlling the carrier recycling rate using throttling valve 58.
A third embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 3 wherein a hydraulic motor 64 is used to depressurize the recycled carrier. A manually operated control valve 66 can be used to control the concentration of the proppant in the slurry discharged from separator 56. One way of reducing the power requirement would be to have hydraulic motor 64 control a second injection pump 68 which is in parallel with the principal injection pump 14. The system disclosed in FIG. 3 is similar to that disclosed in FIG. 2 in all other respects.
It is noted that FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 depicted the surfactant as being added in the high pressure part of the system. However, if the injection pump and the concentrator are sufficiently gas free, the surfactant can be added in the low pressure side of the system. The only advantage of adding the surfactant on the high pressure side of the system downstream of the concentrator or separator is that foaming is prevented in the injection pump or in the concentrator or separator. Naturally, a high pressure injection pump must be used to inject the surfactant on the high pressure side which in turn adds to the cost of the system.
With reference now to FIGS. 4-8, a preferred concentrator according to the present invention is disclosed at 16. Concentrator 16 receives a high pressure slurry at an inlet 70 located at the forward end thereof from a slurry storage tank 10 through a high pressure injection pump 14. If desired, a mixing line 72 can be connected through a valve 74 to the discharge of pump 14 and supply a small quantity of slurry back to tank 10 to ensure that the proppant does not settle out of the carrier. Concentrated slurry is discharged from concentrator 16 at a slurry outlet 76. A substantially proppant free carrier is discharged from concentrator 16 at a carrier outlet 78.
Concentrator 16 is comprised of a substantially horizontally extending, substantially cylindrical vessel 80 having forward and rearward hydraulic seal chambers 82 and 84, respectively. A rotor 86 is rotatably mounted inside vessel 80 on a shaft 88 that is journalled inside seal chambers 82 and 84. A high torque developing motor 90 is connected to shaft 88 for rotating rotor 86 at operating speeds which can be from 1600 to 2000 r.p.m. Rotor 86 in turn comprises a substantially cyclindrical stabilizer 92 at the forward end thereof, a plurality of intake impellers 94 downstream of stabilizer 92, a plurality of discharge impellers 96 spaced downstream from intake impellers 94 and an internal passageway 98 in fluid communication from intake impellers 94 to discharge impellers 96. Rotor 86 and the circular walls of vessel 80 define an annular concentric channel 100, through which the concentrated slurry is accumulated and into which slurry outlet 76 is tangentially connected.
Stabilizer 92 has two basic functions, to impart a spin to the incoming slurry through frictional contact and to dampen torsional vibrations of the rotor and shaft by the frictional torque exerted by the rotor. Stabilizer 92 preferably has a rubber cover to resist abrasion and a plurality of longitudinal or axial grooves therein to increase surface area and improve traction. The spin induced by stabilizer 92 develops sufficient centrifugal force on the proppant in the slurry to initiate the proppant separation process before the slurry reaches the intake impellers 94. This provides a boundary layer of carrier largely free of proppant and helps to protect the intake impellers from contact with an excessive quantity of the abrasive proppant.
Intake impellers 94 consist of a plurality (for example 15) of individual impellers 102 which can be of the type shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. Each impeller 102 has a plurality of axially extending orifices 104 spaced about the outer part of the circumference thereof. Orifices 104 receive stabilizing rods (not shown) which extend through all of the individual impellers and thereby permit all of the impellers 102 to rotate together. A large, central orifice 106 in impeller 102 permits the impeller to be mounted onto shaft 88. A plurality of inner orifices 108 shaped as circle segments and circumferentially spaced about central orifice 106 extend completely through impeller 102 and provide an axial fluid course or channel for the separated carrier. The size of the inner orifices 108 must be sufficient to handle the required volume of effluent carrier flow at reasonable fluid velocities. A plurality of spaced apart vanes 110, preferably equal in number to the number of inner orifices 108 spiral outwardly from the outer periphery of inner orifices 108 in a direction opposite the direction of rotation indicated by arrow 112 to the outer periphery of impeller 102. Vanes 110 define a plurality of shallow (e.g., 1/4 inch), outwardly spiralling intake channels 114 for permitting a fraction of the intake slurry to be admitted therein. Intake channels 114 spiral in a direction opposite the rotation of impeller 102 so as to discourage the admission of proppant. On the one hand, intake channels cannot be so small a to get plugged with fine or course proppant, yet on the other hand must have a small enough cross section so as to guide the slurry effectively. The total cross sectional area of all of intake channels 114 in all of impellers 102 must also be appropriately sized for the rated flow therethrough and hence the flow through concentrator 16. The flow through intake channels 114 is indicated by dashed line 116. Finally, a plurality of spokes 118 emanate radially outwardly from central orifice 106 to vanes 110 and function not only as supporting members for impeller 102, but also for providing increased fluid traction and the torque supplied to the fluid contributes to the rotational strength of the fluid vortex system.
Discharge impellers 96 comprise a plurality of individual impellers 120 as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8. Impeller 120 is comprised of the same elements as intake impeller 102, albeit different in number and shape, and are denoted by the primed number that is the same as the corresponding element in the intake impeller 102. Discharge impeller 120 rotates in the direction shown by arrow 122 and has a fluid flow outwardly as shown by arrow 124. Discharge impeller 120 also differs from intake impeller 102 in that the former has a larger diameter so as to provide the required discharge head. Exemplary diameters of intake and discharge impellers 102 and 120 are 41/2 inches and 5 inches, respectively, each with a nominal thickness of 1/2 inch and each with fluid passages or channels of 1/4 inch in depth. The impeller faces can be molded from epoxy with the mating faces of adjacent impellers ground true. An exemplary number of discharge impellers 120 can be 14 or 15.
It may also be desirable to locate a small propeller at the upstream end of intake impellers 94 so as to provide axial thrust. In addition, a rubber annular restrictor 126 can be located immediately downstream of the slurry outlet 76 so as to form an orifice and thereby restrict axial flow to a small annular space around rotor 86. By restricting the axial flow area beyond slurry outlet 76, the wash of fluid from discharge impellers 96 should be sufficient to check the axial momentum of proppant and thereby limit the amount of proppant discharged with the carrier. A plurality of deflector fins 128 mounted between intake impellers 94 and discharge impellers 96 are perforated and are to impart additional spin to the concentrated slurry at the discharge and check the axial momentum of the proppant. An axial vane 130, pivotally mounted with a shaft extending through the wall of vessel 80, is located in the annular space just downstream of slurry discharge or outlet 76 and is useful for controlling the volume of carrier washing past restrictor 126 from discharge impellers 96.
Concentrator 16 also has a valved recycle line 132 tangentially entering vessel 80 opposite discharge impellers 96 at one end and upstream of stabilizer 92 at the other end. Recycle line 132 provides a means for washing axial channel 100 with an increased volume of flow to prevent plugging thereof with solids.
Concentrator 16 can be equipped with adjustable legs at the motor 90 end thereof so that it can be inclined at the forward end. Exemplary specifications of concentrator 16 can include a working pressure of 5,000 psig, a maximum input slurry rate of 210 gpm having an input concentration of 4 to 8 lbs. per gallon. An output concentration of proppant in the concentrated slurry can be expected to be greater than 12 lbs. per gallon.
In operation, concentrator 16 has slurry fed into inlet 70 which preferably is tangentially connected. The pressure inside concentrator 16 is maintained by controlling the input and output fluids. A fraction of the input slurry is induced to flow radially inwardly entering intake impeller 94 through intake channels 114. The fluid within the rotor is induced to flow axially along and through inner orifices 108 toward discharge impellers 96. Fluid flows out of discharge impellers 96 through discharge channels 114' into a rearward part of annular channel 100. As the fluid is flowing through inner orifices 108, any proppant still therein is forced radially outwardly back into axial channel or annulus 100. Slurry at a concentration increased by the withdrawal of carrier flows axially along axial channel 100 toward slurry outlet 76. Deflector fins 128 increase the angular velocity of the concentrated slurry in the vicinity of slurry outlet 76 and particles of the proppant impinging on the deflector fins lose axial momentum. Flexible restrictor 126 also serves as a guide to deflect proppant toward slurry outlet 76. A fraction of the flow from discharge impellers 96 is removed as carrier effluent and the residual flow from discharge impellers 96 washes back to slurry outlet 76 where it is discharged with the concentrated slurry.
Although the method and apparatus of the present invention have been described in detail with respect to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that variations and modifications may be effected within the scope and spirit of the invention.
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|Filing date
|Publication date
|May 11, 1959
|Jun 9, 1964
|Phillips Petroleum Co
|Fracturing formations in wells
|Dec 14, 1960
|Jun 23, 1964
|Jersey Prod Res Co
|Hydraulic fracturing method
|Dec 17, 1962
|Apr 12, 1966
|Dow Chemical Co
|Creating multiple fractures in a subterranean formation
|Dec 29, 1965
|Jan 16, 1968
|Phillips Petroleum Co
|Filling and/or propping fractures in subterranean strata
|Mar 13, 1964
|Aug 6, 1968
|Producers Chemical Company
|Composition for fracturing process
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Skip to comments.Condemned Ohio Child Killer Wants to Donate Organs
Posted on 11/11/2013 7:50:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
A condemned child killer who has abandoned his remaining appeals asked Monday for the chance to donate his organs to his ailing mother and sister either before or after his execution this week.
The request by Ronald Phillips to donate a kidney and his heart is not a delay tactic, but rather an attempt to make a final gesture for good, according to his public defender.
"It is our sincere hope that the state of Ohio will do the right thing to ensure that as many people as possible will benefit from the gift of life that Ron is so generously willing to bestow as his own life approaches its end," attorney Lisa Lagos said in an interview.
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Cool way to go: Just harvest his organs till he craps out.
Ask China. They do it all the time.
On the fence. Help me out people.
All organs are harvested before you're dead. They just don't want you to know that.
I see a very bad horror franchise coming out of this...
I'll help you out!
I say we harvest any and all usable parts from ALL Death Row inmates; even while still living, i.e. a lung, a kidney, an eyeball, new hair plugs for Joe Biden, etc.
With or without anesthesia, your call.
Of course, you'll need to buy a ticket when you're a baby as they keep these POSs ALIVE for 20+ years AFTER THE CRIME and ON OUR DIME!
Save The Animals! Test new chemicals, drugs and cosmetics on them too, while you're at it. *SMIRK*
You're Welcome! :)
Organs, hell. I wouldn't take a piano from this guy.
Just put em on a table with the necessary tubes and equipment to keep them alive, and harvest away...'till there's nothing useful left.
Then pull the plug.
We can never allow the precedent of harvesting organs from the condemned.
There are frighteningly few steps between allowing one man to do the right thing, expecting all condemned to donate, to requiring them to donate, to a lowered threshold to convict, because after all even if we're not certain he's guilty so many others will live because of his organs, (and besides, the state makes a bundle on kidneys and livers)...
On the fence. Help me out people
Do you really want the likes of a Eric Holder or a Valerie Jarrett, with your ACA records in one tentacle and a list of loyal party members who need organs in another tentacle and your NSA records in yet another tentacle deciding who will be accused of a capital crime this week?
Hammond or Wurlitzer?
Anything else... iffy...
not true...you read too many tabloids.
What, are you like Hamlet, reluctant to kill Claudius at his prayers, lest he go to heaven?
No, I want it to be Newt Gingrich or Pat Buchannon.
How long will that last? Are you familiar with why our Constitution is written to limit government power?
Larry Niven explores this at length in his "Known Space" series of stories written in the '70s. This Wikipedia article explains it at length:
The crime of organlegging developes as a response to the Organ Bank Problem, a concept featured prominently in the early Known Space stories, particularly those set in the 21st and 22nd century. The Organ Bank Problem is a central theme in the novel A Gift from Earth, as well as the Gil Hamilton detective stories.
In Niven's universe, it was possible to transplant nearly any organ in the body (and prevent rejection) by the mid 21st century. Since any organ could now be replaced, in theory one could use the organ banks to extend life indefinitely. To maintain communal organ banks, one needs donors (i.e. dead people). When the death rate is reduced (via the organ banks), the number of donors decreases. Thus, the supply of organs would continually reduce.
On Earth, the problem led to a repressive society almost unrecognizable by today's standards. Since the average citizens wished to extend their lives, the world government sought to increase the supply by using condemned criminals to supply the organ banks. When this failed to meet the demand, citizens would vote for the death penalty for more and more trivial crimes. First violent crimes, then theft, tax evasion, false advertising, and even traffic violations became punishable by the organ banks. This failed to solve the problem, as once the death penalty was passed for a crime, people stopped committing it. This resulted in nearly every crime meriting the death penalty. Further attempts to alleviate the problem by declaring certain groups of cryogenically frozen people to be dead in law (the so-called "Freezer Bills") and harvesting their organs also proved to be unsuccessful. The freezer vaults represented a finite supply and therefore were eventually exhausted.
It is not until the mid-24th century that alloplasty, improved prosthetics, and most importantly, the ability to grow the needed organs by manipulating one's own DNA, ultimately made the organ banks obsolete.
Wasn't there some cheesy 80's or 90's horror movie where the guy gets a transplant of a murderers amputated arm and can't control its murdering rampage?
My son-in-law died about 5 years ago at age 33. My daughter was pressured at the hospital to donate his organs, I say "pressured" because they needed an immediate decision, so she agreed.
She had to have a closed casket funeral after that, which she did not want. They took the skin from his face, which she did not know in advance that they would do.
They'd have to act quickly.
They would, and blame the TEA party.
It's partially true.
There have been some mistakes.
I'm just kidding tery....Or is it carl?
Wasn't this the theme of a horror movie where the recipient of a heart from a murderer began to murder people.
Agree N&V.
Has to be a very clear no!
Who writes like this?! I mean seriously?!
He doesn't have to be dead to donate a kidney.
>> On the fence. Help me out people
It wasn't something like manslaughter.
- - - -
Incinerate every fiber of his being.
Could be dangerous; a guy I know got a kidney transplant from a circus clown who passed away.
He went right out and bought a Mini-Cooper.
Who said anything about the federal level?
Ah. I see. The people who run towns are qualitatively different than the people who run countries.
Did you know that the BTK killer worked in building code enforcement? There was a big gap in his career of Binding, Torturing and Killing, because he got so much pleasure tormenting people administratively he felt no need to actually kidnap and murder young women.
That is the sort of person who will seek out positions in the organ harvesting food chain.
And you are OK with creating those positions? Why?
Oh, that would never happen. We are a nation of Laws! It's not like a _Resident can just sign things into LAW with Executive Orders!
An excellent novel on the subject is, 'Never Let Me Go' by Ishiguro something...He wrote 'The Remains of the Day' and a few others. It's about cloning and organ harvesting for the Elites. Chilling!
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Information did not come by the tabloids.
Once you are dead your organs are no longer useful.
It all depends on what your definition of 'dead' is.
I know what mine is.
And, the powers not given to the federal government are reserved for the states and the people.
That is the sort of person who will seek out positions in the organ harvesting food chain.
Actually that is the sort of person who would be "harvested".
The first qualification was that they need to be on death row.
Making organ... well, I'd say donation but if it is mandatory it really isn't, automatic instead of voluntary could create a dangerous perverse incentive.
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As a few others have reported, the later versions of melt seem to have some issues. I couldn't get any rendering to complete with version 0.7.8 of melt either from the standard debian repositories or from debian-multimedia.org.
What I did was go to snapshot.debian.org and get the last of the 0.7.6 version from there. This version worked.
Four packages need to be installed with dpkg -i
These should then be put on hold in aptitude so they do not get updated accidentally. (Press = on the package).
The strange thing is that from what I read the issues was supposed to be fixed in the 0.7.8 release, but it seems that they are still there.


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I hate that some much of dating is about sex. I hate having to feel like I have to sex with the people that date me. I hate feeling like I am obligated and I hate how guys don't stop about it until they get what they want. Its so annoying and it makes me feel really bad about myself. I used to not be so weird about sex. It wasn't a big deal I always thought I was just ganna marry the person I had sex with for the first time. I feel really about about not being a virgin. I still blame myself. I hate that sex is so much apart of our cultural and that people have such weird fetishes. Like dads doing weird things to their daughters and uncles having no boundaries. I used to worry about it before I ever became sexually active. I never wanted to have sex until marriage it was my goal, but after what had happened has a kid and a teenager I felt like it was pointless to lie to myself about it. Thinking that pushing it aside and deal with it later was going to be the best thing I could do because of my family and their culture views. I also used to think that my husband would understand what happened to me. but I never felt like I got that chance to even get there like I'm already damaged goods. I never got the chance not to be labeled something dirty and gross, at least thats how I spent the majority of my childhood, I was always made fun of, if not by family members then by bullies at school. I even thought god was punishing me for something like I was just a bad person. IT made me so angry that God ever gave me a life, I didn't understand why he would bring a life into this world just to suffer. I think this is why I started to be an atheist at such a young age it just didn't make scene to me that if God was suppose to be good, then why didn't he make good things happen. I kept thinking that if God exist than my life would be better their wouldn't be suffering he would have stopped the abuse and protected me from the other people who where out to hurt me. Life would be more happy. IT never really effected me in all aspects of my life, or maybe I just don't really understand how it effects me. I still have really bad anxiety. I can't even be around new people without feeling like I am holding my breath or breathing too fast. The last few months though my symptoms have been better and I relax after a while of knowing someone one or a circumstance that happen. I think thats why I never really wanted to say anything either. I just really thought and expected the Idea that I was just ganna end up with an abused and that life wasn't ganna be what my life has turned into the happlier ever after that everyone else seem to have. I often got jealous and still do, of those people who have never been abused, who never had to struggle, or grow up so fast. Theres a part of me that wants to take no responsibility for the things that have happened yet the other side of me feels like if I don't than I have no control over my life, even thought I still feel like I have had no control as to how thing play'd out, just I have just been set up to fail, and my whole family has just stuck around to watch me fall, and fail, my brother even told me one time that he wants to see me fail, he was really drunk, but those words still hurt even after all his kindness. I just feel so little and like my life was just set up to be abused and used. Thats how I feel, especially after this last guy I dated or tried to date, I can convince myself all I want about that but the reality was he was raping me. I can't even have sex with anyone, it just makes me cry it doesn't feel good, it doesn't make me feel good about myself. I wish things didn't feel so hurt full for that my heart did hurt or just want to cry all the time. I often feel so empty and like nothing I do will ever take away the pain. OTher days I feel like I learn to cope better and that I do make progress even when I feel like there is no hope. I could kill myself, I even asked this guy why he didn't kill me as it would have been better to be dead then to feel what I feel inside. How it never goes away the tears or thoughts of self hate or thinking if I was different. If I never tried to get away. If I just stay'd away and sad myself. How I would have taken anything just to be with somebody and now I just feel like I should have just stay'd alone. I even told him that I was better off alone. Yet now its just all my fault. I am even according to the state a criminal. I just wanted to truth, to be unstuck. TO stop feeling so used and so low and not even understand that it was because of him or how abusive it was and how much it would effect all the past abuse from resurfacing. Because of what he did. I had a right to know that my body was naked all over the internet or at how and why it got there and I know who it was, Im not that dumb, and I know my body. Just naive in think that the guy who raped me was ganna be the person I married. I just didn't want to do any of it again. I didn't want to go through dating or trying to find someone I just wanted to be loved, and being confused by the sex after telling him to stop to leave me alone to fuck off and how I just took it like he was just misunderstood, like it was my fault for trying to move on with my life and even being called a whore because of it, how much I was manipulated and even convinced myself it was all my fault, if I never tried to move on with my life maybe he would have wanted to try, or if that I wasn't me or so emotional, even though this person never wanted anything to do with me. None of it was even true maybe I don't really know. Cus I never really knew him. I think its kind of dumb that people say you can't love the person who raped you cus I did. Yes after being lied to and manipulated and even forgetting why I stopped seeing him even after going to Planned Parenthood to get tested for a STD. I was more worried about that then going to the Police. Even with going to the police I think this is why I cry too, as I knew as I child that this is how it would be. That it would never matter the truth of what really happened to me. . . why I hated myself and still hate myself.... why I just can't get over things and obsesses about meaningless things. I still often just hate my life. There seems to be no good people in this world.


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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's prime minister promised Friday to take steps to spur economic growth in the Palestinian areas, but Palestinians were dismissive, saying an Israeli settlement freeze would be the most effective confidence-building gesture.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the measures a day before the Quartet of Mideast mediators - the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia - was to meet in Germany to seek ways to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The Palestinians walked out in September, following a brief round of talks, after Netanyahu refused to extend a curb on settlement construction on war-won lands the Palestinians seek for their state.
The steps announced by Netanyahu on Friday included Israeli permission, in principle, for several infrastructure projects in Hamas-ruled Gaza, including electricity and desalination plants.
Israel and Egypt have sharply restricted access to the territory since the Islamic militant Hamas seized Gaza by force in 2007. In recent months, Israel has eased some of the restrictions, including approving the import of some badly needed raw materials for international reconstruction projects.
Netanyahu also offered Friday to begin talks with Hamas' rival, internationally Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on developing a natural gas field off Gaza.
The Israeli leader also said he would allow the Palestinians to extend their security presence to more areas of the West Bank. For now, Abbas has limited control over only about 40 percent of the West Bank.
Netanyahu said the measures will help bring more stability and improve the lives of Palestinians, but are not a substitute to peace talks.
"I don't delude myself for a second that an economic peace is a substitute for political peace," Netanyahu said. "We need both and I hope that Abu Mazen (Abbas) will heed my call and enter direct negotiations with us."
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said such gestures are not enough.
"Netanyahu wants to build more confidence through this? He needs to stand up and call for an end to settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem," he said, referring to lands Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.
Additional reporting by Dalia Nammari in Ramallah, West Bank.
Israel Pledges Steps To Boost Palestinian Economy
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litres. Find a way to pour 9 litres of drink from one jug to
another until you are left with exactly 3 litres in three of the
Well now, what would happen if we lost all the nines in our number
system? Have a go at writing the numbers out in this way and have a
look at the multiplications table.
Twizzle, a female giraffe, needs transporting to another zoo. Which
route will give the fastest journey?
Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves
there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a
twig and a leaf.
Can you put plus signs in so this is true? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 99
How many ways can you do it?
There are three buckets each of which holds a maximum of 5 litres.
Use the clues to work out how much liquid there is in each bucket.
Try adding together the dates of all the days in one week. Now
multiply the first date by 7 and add 21. Can you explain what
Where can you draw a line on a clock face so that the numbers on
both sides have the same total?
Fill in the numbers to make the sum of each row, column and
diagonal equal to 15.
On a calculator, make 15 by using only the 2 key and any of the
four operations keys. How many ways can you find to do it?
Use your logical reasoning to work out how many cows and how many
sheep there are in each field.
Amy has a box containing domino pieces but she does not think it is a complete set. She has 24 dominoes in her box and there are 125 spots on them altogether. Which of her domino pieces are missing?
Use 4 four times with simple operations so that you get the answer 12. Can you make 15, 16 and 17 too?
This magic square has operations written in it, to make it into a
maze. Start wherever you like, go through every cell and go out a
total of 15!
On the table there is a pile of oranges and lemons that weighs
exactly one kilogram. Using the information, can you work out how
many lemons there are?
Put a number at the top of the machine and collect a number at the
bottom. What do you get? Which numbers get back to themselves?
Arrange eight of the numbers between 1 and 9 in the Polo Square
below so that each side adds to the same total.
Zumf makes spectacles for the residents of the planet Zargon, who
have either 3 eyes or 4 eyes. How many lenses will Zumf need to
make all the different orders for 9 families?
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street
in different ways.
What is happening at each box in these machines?
Can you find all the ways to get 15 at the top of this triangle of numbers?
This task follows on from Build it Up and takes the ideas into three dimensions!
This task combines spatial awareness with addition and multiplication.
You have 5 darts and your target score is 44. How many different
ways could you score 44?
Winifred Wytsh bought a box each of jelly babies, milk jelly bears,
yellow jelly bees and jelly belly beans. In how many different ways
could she make a jolly jelly feast with 32 legs?
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
Mrs Morgan, the class's teacher, pinned numbers onto the backs of
three children. Use the information to find out what the three
numbers were.
The Scot, John Napier, invented these strips about 400 years ago to
help calculate multiplication and division. Can you work out how to
use Napier's bones to find the answer to these multiplications?
Here are the prices for 1st and 2nd class mail within the UK. You have an unlimited number of each of these stamps. Which stamps would you need to post a parcel weighing 825g?
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This year, the Alliance for Excellent Education is pleased to host Digital Learning Day Live! as part of the Teaching and Learning Conference. Conference attendees will also have the option to participate in a series of interactive workshops on how to use technology as part of an effective personalized learning strategy. The full schedule of Digital Learning Day events will take place on Friday, March 13, 2015.
If you have already registered for T&L2015 and received your 5 letter code, you may Click here to register for DLD now! No further payment will be required.
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.: Interactive Product Demonstrations
Register to join the official kick-off of Digital Learning Day at the Teaching & Learning Conference! Registered attendees will start the morning with hands-on, interactive demonstrations of new and emerging digital classroom tools.
Attendees will rotate through multiple stations while learning about fun ways to leverage technology in the classroom and incorporate ordinary materials into digital learning lessons. Conference attendees will also enjoy free products and raffle prizes!
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Future Ready Schools Workshops
The Future Ready Schools Initiative is a bold new effort to maximize digital learning opportunities nationwide and help school districts move quickly toward preparing students for success in college, a career, and citizenship. The initiative provides districts with resources and support to ensure that local technology and digital learning plans align with instructional best practices, are implemented by highly trained teachers, and lead to personalized learning experiences for all students, particularly those who are traditionally underserved.
At the center of the Future Ready Schools Initiative is a series of regional summits during which district teams develop action plans and metrics to measure their progress in using digital tools to improve teaching and student learning outcomes. The regional summits focus on a comprehensive set of issues that drive student learning, highlight experiences of districts in each region, and offer district leaders tangible ways to build capacity among their teams and throughout their districts.
As a compliment to the regional summits for district leaders, the Future Ready Schools workshops on Digital Learning Day will explore the role of teacher leaders in supporting their school's transition. Advance registration is required for the following workshops (click on the link to learn more).
Blended Learning to Sustain #FutureReady
Who's the Boss? Take Charge of Your Professional Learning
Digital Leadership
Supporting School Districts Effectively in Technology Integration
The Relevant Educator
Empowering Teachers to Build a Positive, Innovative School Culture
Telling Your School's Story
Personalize Instruction & Create Brain-Friendly, Student-Centric Learning Spaces
School Leadership and Teacher Mentoring
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.: Digital Learning Day Live!
Digital Learning Day Live! is the culminating event of thousands of Digital Learning Day celebrations that will take place across the country in classrooms, schools, districts, and states on March 13, 2015. The live event will feature education leaders from schools and districts across the country that demonstrate how great teaching, combined with effective technology, can positively impact America's schools—particularly those that serve high-risk and high-poverty populations.
All conference attendees are invited to participate in Digital Learning Day Live! to learn about some of the nation's most promising digital learning initiatives and engage in a thought-provoking discussion about what it takes to integrate technology effectively, strategically, and meaningfully in schools.
2:30 – 3:45 p.m.: World Premier: School Sleuth: The Case of the Wired Classroom
Conference attendees are invited to attend the world premiere of "School Sleuth: The Case of the Wired Classroom," a new film produced by Learning Matters, leaders in education reporting for over 40 years. This lively and entertaining film noir parody explores fears, expectations and the reality of how technology is (and isn't) being used in America's classrooms. To solve this case, the School Sleuth visited schools and teachers in California, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and elsewhere to uncover the truth.
While technology and the internet changed the rest of our world a long time ago, schools have lagged behind. Now, federal and state government are spending billions to get our schools and classrooms up to speed, and teachers everywhere are wrestling with this new challenge. Equal access to technology is important, but—as the film makes clear–what happens next, once access is achieved, is critical. When this powerful technology is harnessed to simply produce higher test scores, its vast potential is lost, and those students are denied opportunities to dig deep, raise questions and find answers, and have real control over their own learning.
The School Sleuth, who moonlights as Education Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, received the George Foster Peabody award in 2000 for solving "The Case of An Excellent School." The new film includes cameo appearances by a number of instantly recognizable celebrities.
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Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich says that watching the 'Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck' documentary was 'almost too much.'
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Kurt Cobain's daughter opens up for the first time about the upcoming documentary, 'Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck.'
The highly anticipated 'Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck' documentary will screen in select U.S. and international cities ahead of its HBO May 4 TV premiere.
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Degeneration of the intervertebral disc, which is often called "degenerative disc disease" (DDD) of the spine, DDD is in fact a condition that can be painful and can greatly affect the quality of one's life. While disc degeneration is not a normal part of aging and for most people is not a problem, for certain individuals a degenerated disc can cause severe constant chronic pain.
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I am 19 years old and I have had chronic back pain since I was 12 and today I was diagnosed with DDD. My doctor told me there is no treatment except for PT, and I have done PT before with no relief from my pain. Is there really no treatment? Because I find this hard to believe.
Hi everyone, I am new here and just wanted to introduce myself and say hi to everyone...so HI :-)A little about me: I have been dealing with Degenerative Disk Disease in neck & spine, several facet joint arthropathy in neck and spine, thinning bone in spine, osteoarthritis for almost two years now. If that is not enough I am also going through menopause. To say these conditions have an impact on...
Hi everyone :-)I am new on here. I have DDD and have been dealing with it for years. I am married and my husband is out of the country currently. I also have two autistic children. I also have been blessed with Fibromyalgia so I am tying to make the best of everything. I am feeling really discouraged and struggling quite a bit right now. I hope everyone is doing the best that they can. Sending...
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Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes with Oral Administration of Nanoencapsulated GLP-1
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AbstractDESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. While current treatments prevent some of diabetes' more damaging complications, they can neither restore normoglycemia nor eliminate all the harmful effects caused by long term diabetes. Recent studies have shown that the continuous intravenous (i.v.) administration of Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) can lower plasma glucose significantly in a majority of patients with Type 2 diabetes. However, due to the need for the continuous infusion of GLP-1 and the failure of oral GLP-1 peptide to lead to an increase in serum GLP-1 levels, current approaches using GLP-1 are not suitable for long term diabetes treatment. Advanced controlled release systems provide an alternative approach to the standard oral, intravenous or intramuscular delivery of pharmaceutical agents. This application proposes a non-invasive diabetes therapy through the oral administration of GLP-1 encapsulated in biodegradable nanoparticles. Encapsulation of labile biologicals such as GLP-1 into biodegradable polymers provides protection from the acidic environment and proteases of the stomach and allows safe passage into the lumen of the Gl tract for uptake. This proposal is designed to determine whether orally delivered, nano-encapsulated GLP-1 are superior to systemic bolus delivery in reducing blood glucose levels in experimental animals. To this end, three aims are proposed. In Aim 1, different bioadhesive formulations of encapsulated GLP-1 are analyzed for release kinetics (ELISA) and post-release peptide bioactivity (INS-1 cell insulin release / proliferation) in vitro. The goal of Aim 2 is to determine in vivo dosing and kinetics. In this aim, control mice are treated with a intra-peritoneal injection of glucose followed by the oral administration of GLP-1 nanoparticle formulations selected from the release and bioactivity studies in Aim 1. In the final Aim, the therapeutic efficacy of GLP-1 nanoparticles is examined in fasting and post-prandial diabetic mice. Type II diabetes mellitus and its long term complications affect 18.2 million people in the United States alone. Deaths due to the long-term complications of this disease make diabetes the third leading cause of death in the US. The orally delivered form of GLP-1 proposed here could have a profound effect on public health due to its potential to reduce the illness and death associated with long term diabetes.
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